Legacy Fonts and Keyboards

SIL Legacy Keyman Keyboards and fonts

The fonts and keyboards on this page are considered "legacy" solutions. As such, they are made available for use and downloading.

Unicode solutions are encouraged and are being developed for fonts and keyboards. Also available for some legacy systems are mapping files to convert data encoded in a legacy font to Unicode.

Africa

SIL Mali

There are two separate solutions for the Mali Standard font, one for the Qwerty and the other for the Azerty (French) keyboard. The MaliStdQwerty.zip file contains the 'English' keyboarding solution for the Qwerty keyboard. The Mali-Clavier.zip file contains the 'French' keyboarding solution for the Azerty keyboard.

Each of these .zip files contains the following files:

Font files (latest version of the Mali Standard font)

A Keyman redistributable .exe file for installing Keyman 6.0, the fonts
and the keyboarding solution.

Asia

SIL New Tai Lue

This is a separate download from the fonts. These are replacement keyboards for the Keyman 3.2 keyboards which came with the SIL New Tai Lue Font System. They have been compiled for use with Keyman 6.

The original keyboards were written for Keyman 3.2 and do not function with Keyman 5 or 6. No corrections or additions have been made to these keyboards. They do not use Unicode and will only work with the SIL New Tai Lue fonts.

SIL Tai Dam

This is a separate download from the fonts. These are replacement keyboards for the Keyman 3.2 keyboards which came with the SIL Tai Dam Font System. They have been compiled for use with Keyman 6.

The original keyboards were written for Keyman 3.2 and do not function with Keyman 5 or 6. No corrections or additions have been made to these keyboards. They do not use Unicode and will only work with the SIL Tai Dam fonts.

Europe/Middle East

Greek

This is a separate download from the fonts. However, they will only work with the SIL Greek Font System fonts. These are replacement keyboards for the Keyman 3.2 keyboards which came with the SIL Greek Font System. They have been compiled for use with Keyman 6.

The original keyboards were written for Keyman 3.2 and do not function with Keyman 5 or 6. No corrections or additions have been made to these keyboards. They do not use Unicode.

IPA

This is a separate download from the fonts. However, they will only work with the SIL Encore IPA fonts. These are replacement keyboards for the Keyman 3.2 keyboards which came with the Keyman 3.2 download. They have been compiled for use with Keyman 5 and above.

The original keyboards were written for Keyman 3.2 and do not function with Keyman 5 or 6. No corrections or additions have been made to these keyboards. They do not use Unicode and thus they will only work with the SIL Encore IPA fonts.